Primary drivers of change in EU Arctic fjord socio-ecological systems



Work package one (WP1)



Financed under grant #869154

Why fjords?

Important socio-ecological systems whose climate impacts may differ from IPCC AR6








Range of fjords throughout the EU Arctic provide “natural laboratory”

Socio-ecological systems?

Socio-ecological systems?

Cryosphere

Physics

Chemistry

Biology

Social

Cryosphere


Sea ice


Glacier mass balance


Glacial + riverine discharge

Physics


Seawater temperature


Salinity


Light

Chemistry


Carbonate system


Nutrients

Biology


Primary production


Biomass


Species richness

Social


Governance


Tourism


Fisheries

State of knowledge

  • LOV panel A

Interactions

  • LOV panel B

Thank you for listening!


Robert Schlegel



LOV, Sorbonne Université – CNRS, France